Confessor
Nicetas of Pythia
A Byzantine confessor who lived at Pythia, reposing in 868.
- Feast
- February 4old style February 17
- Era
- 9th century
- Place
- Byzantium
- Order
- Confessors
Life
Venerable Nicetas of Pythia was an ascetic at Pythia (today Kuri), before iconoclasm, and reposed in peace. He is commemorated on 4 February (new style).
He is not found in the usual synaxaria; his name appears in Manuel Gedeon's Byzantine Heortologion. No other details of his life are preserved.
Commemorated the same day February 4
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Nicholas the StuditeVenerable · Abbot of the Stoudios MonasteryFeb 4
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Alexei SharovHieromartyr · ArchpriestFeb 4
Catherine of SimbirskVenerable Martyr · Nun at SimbirskFeb 4
John TikhomirovHieromartyr · PriestFeb 4- Anthony of SupraślVenerable MartyrFeb 4
Nicholas PospelovHieromartyr · ArchpriestFeb 4
Methodius KrasnoperovHieromartyr · Bishop of PetropavlovskFeb 4